1/4/13: Foot, School, & Therapy

I left the house for the first time since i hurt my foot. it's my driving foot but it did okay. I still have massive bruising and some swelling and soreness so I just think it's going to take a long time to heal. After 20 years of acrylics, I got a manicure and gel polish tonight. Hoping it will last as nice as the pink and whites. :) The kids were funny about it though. Elodie said "but I like the pink and white" and Callen came running, pointing to his finger saying "pink pink pink," like where's the pink mom? Too cute.

Today, Elodie took four more MUS math tests for chapters 2-5 and got 100% on all of them. I'm wondering how many chapters she'll test out of just from doing MUS Primer before Alpha (Primer is the kindergarten math and Alpha is the 1st grade math). I think I'll just keep testing her until she gets one wrong and then we'll start with that chapter.

Elodie's reading is progressing nicely as well. She's now reading through the Bob Books First Grade books. She sounds things out quite well and usually has no trouble with whatever reading she has to do for MFW Kindergarten. She also enjoys the read-alouds we do.

Callen's therapy sessions started back yesterday after a two week break. He did really well for both sessions. Sara got him to touch and push a cucumber around on his tray, which was great since before he threw two tantrums just because I put a cucumber slice on his tray. We also got him to kiss it goodbye. Mandy confirmed that he's catching up with his words. He's now on par with an average 2 year old, but he's 2 years old and four months, so that means he's about four months behind on his speech. An average two and an half year old will have 300 words so the average child's words would explode after two. Plus, an average two year old would be speaking in almost all two-word sentences, which Callen's not quite there yet, but he's definitely getting there. We're really pleased with his progress and he does even more for Mandy than he'll do for us (which she says is totally normal since he's in speech mode when he's with her and he only has to be "on" for an hour with her, whereas with us, he has to be "on" all the time). She also said he just hasn't made all those brain pathways yet that are messed up with him. So we're just trying to get him to say as much as we can. I kid you not, he has a new word every day!

Here's some other words he's saying that I don't think I had on his previous list: Let go!; Hey!; boon (spoon); sauce; piggy sauce; piggy no moo (he wanted the Dave's BBQ Sauce, not the Bull's Eye BBQ sauce; Dave's has a pig on it and Bull's Eye has a bull on it).

Day 5: foot

Isn't that a nice ring of black around that lovely shade of 70s yellow/green?

Day 4: Foot

Well, we finally did it.  We got out of the dark ages.  Last Saturday, Dave bought us a new 60" flat screen tv to replace the gigantic rear-projection tv that the previous owners had left here.  He also got a dvd player so that we could move the one from the basement to the family room since the family room didn't have one.  We did all this so we'd have options with how to watch tv.  Our old tv was too old to hook up to a computer to watch shows.  This way, we could either upgrade or have Dave hook my computer up or have him build a dvr.  Then he talked with D!rectTv and we figured if we dropped our home phone that we could apply that monthly amount to the tv.  Anyhow, the guys came to install D!rectTv this morning.  It was the most I'd been on my food all week so I stayed on the couch the whole afternoon.  I managed to read all of The Silver Chair today.  I've been reading my way through the Chronicles of Narnia series.  Can you believe I've never read them?  They are great books!





Clapping to W!ggles




Here's my foot on day 4:

Day 3: Foot

Dave stayed home from work again to work from home so he could grab stuff for me when I needed it. We did school just like yesterday.



Playing "Go Fish" with alphabet cards

 

 

 

Day 2: Foot

Dave was supposed to go back to work today but he so kindly worked from home so he could feed the kids lunch and grab stuff for me when I needed it. I parked myself on the couch with my foot propped up. The little table and chairs is right next to the couch so it made it really easy to do school that way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas. Day 1: Foot Injury

Today is Christmas and I haven't spent today quite as planned.  This morning when I was going downstairs to check if there was more cereal in the closet, I rolled my foot on the vacuum cleaner hose.  It hurt SO bad and instantly swelled with blood.  I spent the rest of the day on the couch, icing and elevating my foot while watching lame Christmas movies on the Ha!!mark channel.  At least I have an awesome hubby that took care of me, but I must say, he wasn't in the best mood.

1/22/12: Dropped nursing, etc.

This past week, Callen started refusing to nurse (and sometimes asking for milk instead by signing "milk") or nursing very little at lunch and dinner so that by the end of the week, he'd dropped the 12pm and 4pm nursings all together. Kinda sad for me, but at the same time very freeing for me because now, if I wanted to, I could actually be gone all day. :)

Other Callenisms: He'll sign "milk" and walk over to the fridge. I'll get out the milk and try to hand it to him, but he'll refuse, so I'd put it back. But he actually wanted it so he'll whine and I'll get it out again and he'll take off down the hallway and then sit down in the family room waiting for his milk. This happened for awhile before Dave and I figured out that, yes, he wanted his milk, but only when he had sat down where ever it was that he wanted to sit. So now, he'll sign "milk," walk to the fridge to see you get it out, then high tale it somewhere to sit down and wait for you to hand it to him. So cute!

I think I've mentioned before that Callen loves the plastic castle slide we have in our basement. He can go up and down it on his own, but occasionally can't get up it if his socks or jammies are too slippery (best with bare feet). His latest thing is sliding down into this huge monkey pillow pet type thing at the bottom. He just loves it. Plus, it cushions his slide if he wasn't so eloquent about his method downward. He also just loves to walk up to the monkey and fall into it and then irrupt into giggling. It's pretty darn cute. He likes to play peek-a-boo through the slide too (when he's on the end he climbs up at).

He seems to incur more injuries, boo boos, bruises, eggs on his head, split lips, etc. that we ever remember Elodie having. Just in the past 24 hours, he split his bottom lip open, fell off the step stool onto the tile floor on his face attaining a nice goose egg on his forehead and split open his top lip, all while his parents watched while not be fast enough to prevent injuries.